Crop lifter



Dec. A27, 1938. H. D, HUME z-:T Al.

CROP LFTER 2 sheets-sheet 1 Filed Jan. ie, 1937 lima )3.11am vnclm v Dec. 27, 1938. H. D; HUM ET AL,

CROP L IFTER Filed Jan. 18, 19:57 2 sheets-sheet 2 Herm 0. l James ,Bove

Snventor Patented Dec. 27, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,141,300 n CROP LIFTER Horace D. Hume and James E. Love, Garfield,

Wash., assignors to Hume-Love Company, Garfield, Wash., a corporation l Application January 18, 1937, Serial No. 121,087 4 Claims. (Cl. 56-313) Our present invention relates toimprovements Figure 6' iS a t0n Plan View 0f the linger bal in crop lifters in the nature of attachments for or lifter bar. l harvesters of the mower or sickle type employing In order that the general arrangement and a front outwardly set, reciprocating cutter. The utility of the crop lifter may readily b-e undercrop lifter is mounted as an attachment on the stood We have shown in Figure l the crop lifter g cutter frame of the sickle for operation in adin side elevation, and a portion of the harvester Vance of the transversely arranged reciprocable in longitudinal vertical section, which Section cutter, for the purpose of aiding and assisting in inCludeS the fram@ bai l, the Cutter bai* 2, the guiding and passing the crop rearwardly to the guard 3 having a fastening bolt 4 and a brace 5 10 sickle and upwardly te the usuel rotary reel and for Supporting the Outer or free end of the Io.

draper found on this type of cutter. Sickle.

The crop lifter is adapted not only for 'use in In Carrying Oui Our lnventiOn We einplOy the harvesting standing grain, but it is especially bolt 4 and its nut 6 in connection with a runner useful for harvesting down or fallen grain, vines, l WhlCh Tunnel' has Si Channel 3 in ilS upper and other crops that 1i@` close t0 the ground, and face, and this channel terminates in a socket 9 are adapted to be harvested by an implement of to receive the pointed toe l0 of the guard, which the Sickle type,l guard it will be understood is a usual part of The present invention involves a crop lifter the Sickl l w of the type illustrated in my pending application In attahlng the @min lifter t0 the mOWel OI 20. for patent ser. N0 65,993 med March 4, 1935, sickle, the channel 8 of the runner is fitted up 20 against the under side of the shoe 3, and the socket 9 of the runner is tted over the point or toe lll of the guard, the runner being curved to conform tothe shape of the guard. The runner near its rear end is flattened and fashioned 25,

and this invention contemplates improvements over the invention of the pending application by Ameans of which the lifter bar or finger bar may be adjusted relatively to the ground surface and the shoe on which it is supported, and also by means of which the @Op lifter may more ef@ with a bolt slot Il, through which the attachciently lift, guide and pass the Vines, or other ing bolt 4 is passed as well as through a bolt hole crop, back tothe cutter and reel of the harvester.. 1n the frame bar l an@ .the nut 5 Clamps the The invention consists in certain novel cornrunner shoe and bm" Tlgdly together m Order binations and arrangements of parts as will herethat thermne" mail be lmlif attached* i0 and 30 inafter be more fully set forth. In the accomform l 51d Dart Wth the Cutter framepanying drawings w-e have illustrated one com- Asl mdlcatg the lower face of the Sinner. l plete example of the physical embodiment of our fgshloned W1 a rounded Outcurv'e' Whlc s invention wherein the parts are combined and Uses at both the from.' and rear ends of the Yun 3D arranged accordingr to one mode we have thus ner and .this face lmparts to the runner the 35 far devised for th; practical application of the oharacterlstics of a rocker or rocking face that ritmi les of our invention enables the crop lifter to skim or glide over the p Figlie 1 is a View in side e'levaton showing the surface of the ground or soil and conform to. ir-

regularities in the ground surface. 40 Fecipmatmg cutter pd guard m' sectwnand At its forward end the runner is fashioned with 40 mdlatmg by dotted hne the range of a Just an 11p-turned laterally flattened, closed, U-shaped men" of the finger bar or hfter bar' head I3, and the U-ends are rigidly joined by a Figui-"e 2 is i pefspectlve View broken ajway cross bar t4, while the rear face i5 of the head 0f the forward end 0f th@ Shoe 0r runner mus' is flattened for a considerable distance for use trating its spring mounted in the recessed head in adjusting the finger bar with relation t0 this 45 0f the runnen supporting head for the finger bar. The rear face Figure 3 iS 2t Vertical longitudinal SeCtiOlal l5 of the head is formed with a hook Il' at its View of the crop lifter showing the interior of upper en@ the housing 0f the finger bal'. the adjusting Within the recess of the U-shaped headacoiled means, and the resilient connection between the spring I6 is mounted, with one end l1 hooked 50 pivoted nger bar and its Supporting runnerover the bar I4, and its other end I8 is anchored Figure 4 is a detail perspective View at the 0n a nange I9 Within a housing 20 located at rear end of the nger bar or lifter bar. the underside of and slightly to the rear of the Figure 5 is a sectional detail View through the longitudinal center of the nnger bar or lifter housing of the finger bar at line 5-5 of Figure 3. bar 2l of the crop lifter. u

The finger bar is mounted with its housing 2El enclosing the head I3 of the runner, and the nger bar is provided with journal bearings 22 in the side walls of the housing, for a pivot bolt 23, which bolt .extends transversely through the housing and also through a bolt hol-e 24 extend ing transversely through the head I3 of the runner. An exterior guard 25 is provided on the outer side of one of the housing walls to guide the vines etc. away from the locking nut 2E that is threaded on the pivot bolt.

The iingerbar, through the instrumentality of its housing and the pivot bolt 23 is mounted on the head oi the runner in such manner as to prevent lateral wobbling, but the nger bar is permitted to rock in a` vertical plane on its pivot bolt 23, with the spring i6 providing resilient resistance and tending to hold the ringer. bar in normal adjusted position. Thus the spring mounted in` the recessed head with one end anchored to the head and the other end anchored to a part of the nger bar, compensates for and stabilizes the rocking movement of the nger bar, and means are provided to vary the tension of the spring for the purpose of limiting this rocking movement, and to adjust the nger bar to normal desired position with relation to the supporting head and also with relation to the ground surface.

.For this purpose we provide a slot 21 in the closed back wall of the housing of the finger bar, and we provide an adjusting bolt 28 located in the slet with its head 29 within the housing and in position to bear against the at face I of the runner-head. Y

A washer Si? and a nut threaded end of the bolt wall of the housing,

exterior of the slotted to clamp the bolt in desired position in the slot. 'I'he bolt may be adjusted within the slot 21 to move the bolt head 29 toward or away from the pivot 23 of the finger bar, and by co-action of the bolt head in frictional contact with the flat face I5 of the runner-head, the finger bar may be adjusted, and the play or range of movement of the nger bar on its pivot may be varied, to raise or lower the pointed toe of the nger bar.

As best seen in Figure 6, the nger bar swells outwardly or laterally in width at 33 and 34 from the pointed toe 32, and the under face of the finger bar is fashioned witha compound curved surface' with its rear terminalA at the housing 2E, and at this point the curved face of the finger bar merges with the rocking curve l2 of the runner. By this arrangement, and with the point of the nger bar gliding over the surface of the ground, if a stone or other obstruction is encountered, the point of the finger bar can ride smoothly over the stone. The under edge 35 of the ringer bar and the under edge of the runner, as i2, are convex in cross section, and because of this transverse out-curve of the parts, the encountered stone may be pushed to either side of the nger bar. Otherwise the compound curve of the nger bar merging with the rocking-curve 3| are mounted on the of the runner permits the crop lifter toA ride from end to end over the stone or obstruction with a smooth and Vfacile movement, thus avoiding strains or jars being transmitted to the sickle.

'Ihe top edge 36 of the main portion of the nger bar as well as the top edge of the rear extension 3'! are also rounded transversely so that the crop as it is picked up may hang loosely at both sides of the nger bar, and yet permit the linger bar to glide smoothly under the hanging crop as the latter is guided to the rear of the nger bar.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

l. In a crop lifter, the combination with a runner having an upturned, recessed-head having a rear flat face, a finger bar having a housing tted over said head, said housing having an upright slotted rear wall, a'pivot bolt passing transversely through the lower part of said head and the lower part of the side walls of said housing, and a spring mounted in the recessed-head having its ends anchored respectively to the head and housing, of a bolt mounted in a slot in the slotted rear wall and slidable toward and away from the pivot bolt, a head on the bolt within the housing in frictional contact with said face, and a clamp nut on the bolt exterior of said slotted rear wall.

2. In an attachment for a harvesting machine, the combination with a frame and a shoe, a runner rigidly mounted on the shoe, and a bearing head on the runner, of a nger bar having a housing fitted over said head and pivoted in the lower part thereof, said housing having a slotted upright rear wall, a bolt mounted in the upper part of the slotted rear wall and adjustable toward and away from the pivot of theV nger bar, means for securing the bolt in adjusted position, and said bolt having frictional contact with the rear face of said head.

3. In an attachment for a harvester, the combination with a supporting head and a spring mounted therein, of a ringer bar pivoted on the lower part of said head and having a rear upright wall, said spring having.one end anchored to the head and its other end anchored to said bar, adjusting means mounted on the upright wall of the finger bar and spaced above the pivot of the nger bar for contact with the rear face of said head, said adjusting means being movable toward and from said pivot, and means for clamping said adjusting means in selected position.

4. In a crop lifter, the combination with a supporting head having va iiat rear face, and a nger bar pivotally mounted on said head and provided with a rear slotted upright wall, of an adjusting bolt mounted in the slotted wall above the pivot of the bar and having a head in frictional contact with said face whereby the bolt may be moved toward or away from the pivot of the finger bar, and a clamp nut on the bolt.

Y HORACE D. HUME. JAMES E. Love. 

